![]() ![]() How everything is described in such a visceral, vivid way. ![]() However, it’s not the subject matter that is so impressive, but how it is written. ![]() Here’s just a smattering of the wild scenery: a group of Bulgarians crossing the frozen Danube river, beneath which they find giant frozen butterflies which they dig up and eat… an entire village getting high on milk of the poppy and hallucinating an undead army and demon attack… the narrator’s time in a hospital where he endures electric shock therapy for his paralyzed face… and so much more, endlessly more. It ranges from Bucharest to New Orleans, from the 1800s to WW2 to present day, and across many subjects. It’s part memoir, part family history, part historical fiction, and part pure hallucinations and dreams. What’s Blinding about, then? That’s hard to say. Judging by this one book, they are very well deserved. His prose and poetry have won or been nominated for dozens of awards, many international. It has vaulted it’s way easily to land among my top ten, possibly top five favorite books ever.Ĭărtărescu is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, and literary critic, who is currently a lecturing professor at the University of Bucharest. In short, this is the most dazzlingly hallucinatory, horribly beautiful, stunning, weird, surreal, and searingly memorable book I’ve read in years. It will be hard to describe this book in words that do it justice, but I will try. ![]()
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